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P L A T E LX.
GERANIUM PUNCTATUM.
Dotted-flowered Geranium.
C L A S S XVL ORDER IV. Sup^tl. Syjiem. Veget. i;8l.
MONODELPHIJ DECANDRI^. Threads united. Ten Chives.
ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.
M O N O G Y N A . Stigmata 5. FruSus roftratus,
5-coccus.
O N E POINTAL. Five fumraits. Fruit furnlilied
with long awns, five dry berries.
See GERANIUM GRANDIFLOKUM, Plate XII.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Geranium foliis radicalibus; floribus umbellatis,
diandris; petalis duobus luperioribus punctatis;
ftigmata quatuor.
Geranium with leaves growing from the root;
flowers grow in umbels, two fertile chives j
the two upper petals being dotted; fummits
four.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. The Empalement cut open, with the Chives and Pointal left on, (natural fize).
2. The Threads cut open, to fliew their number, and the iituation of the two fertile ones,
(magnified).
3. The Pointal, (magnified).
PERHAPS amongfl: plants, there is no genus exhibits fuch varied and numerous fpecies as Geranium;
no one, in which the fpecies are lb allied in natural charaiSter, or fo unfavourable to the fexual fyilem,
if feme deviation from general rules was not allowed: the founder thought fuch licence neceffary,
and we implicitly follow him. Thus far we have thought proper to extenuate in the prefent inftance;
for Ihould we follow Monf. L'Heritier, (as moft of the modern correflors of Linnaeus have done,) a
new genus muft inevitably be formed for this plant. Upon a clofe examination of the flowers, from
a dozen difterent plants, invariably, only feven threads were found; two only with tips, and thofe
placed immediately behind the Ihaft, whofe fummi t s were but four. This Geranium is rather tender,
and requires a dry-ftove heat to make it flower, which it will readily do with fuch afliftance, in April;
about the beginning of which month, this year, a drawing was made from a plant in the colledion of
Meflrs. Lee and Kennedy. The roots or bulbs of this plant were firft received in England by Thomas
Johnes, Etq. in the year 1704, in whofe magnificent confervatory at Havod they flowered the next
year.
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